Academic Staff in the Group
![Professor Dongbing Gu](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/GUDON81301.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Distributed coordinated control of multi-robotic systems, distributed information fusion in wireless sensor networks and model predictive control of mobile robots, robot navigation.
![Professor John Gan](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/GANJO00207.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Brain-actuated robotic control, learning algorithms, neuro-fuzzy systems, computer vision, multimodal human-machine interfaces and information fusion.
![Professor Klaus McDonald-Maier](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/MCDON01907.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Embedded Systems and System-on-Chip (SoC) design, development support and technology to increase performance and reliability; Advanced computer architectures offering vast processing power for robotics, image processing and other real-time critical applications; Application of AI for real world problems and robot control.
![Dr Adrian Clark](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/CLARK65804.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Computer vision, virtual and augmented reality, genetic programming, remote sensing, unmanned autonomous vehicles (UAVs).
![Dr Ali Kafash Hoshiar](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/KAFAS38100.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Soft robotics, swarm micro/nanorobotics, mechatronics systems for small scale robotics.
![Dr Anirban Chowdhury](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/CHOWD32703.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Robotic exoskeleton based rehabilitative and assistive technologies.
![Dr Dimitri Ognibene](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/OGNIB28704.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Principles underlying adaptive social behaviour, biological and artificial agents, physical (visual and multimodal) and virtual environments, social media and virtual reality.
![Dr Jinya Su](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/sujin68001.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Intelligent Autonomous Systems, UAV remote sensing, Precision Agriculture, Applied Machine Learning, Control Engineering, Bayesian learning.
![Dr John Woods](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/WOODS19406.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
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School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Robotics and autonomous vehicles, robotic aviation.
![Dr Liang Hu](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/hulia47602.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
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School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Safe Autonomy,Learning of Dynamic Systems, Autonomous Cyber-Physical Systems.
![Dr Shoaib Ehsan](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/EHSAN58006.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
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School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Computer Vision,robotics, Embedded Systems, Artificial Intelligence.
![Dr Vishwanathan Mohan](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/MOHAN05903.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: Cognitive robotics, computational neuroscience, industrial manufacturing.
![Dr Xiaojun Zhai](http://www1.essex.ac.uk/people-images/ZHAIX77307.jpg?mh=60&mw=60)
Group member
School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of EssexResearch interests: System-on-Chip (SoC) design, embedded system, embedded processor architectures, hardware acceleration.